BMW X Series

Not even close. The BMW X5 has stormed past the Audi Q7 in America this year, building a lead of more than 50,000 sales. Two luxury SUVs that have traded blows since the first Q7 arrived some 20 years ago now look worlds apart on the sales charts. One is …

The BMW X3 has never had an easy life, and the third-generation Audi Q5 has arrived swinging. Both compact luxury SUVs are freshly minted. Both sit at the top of their maker’s American sales charts, the X3 edging out even the larger X5. The G45 X3 landed first, riding on …

The BMW X3 M50 xDrive has just been handed a proper shot in the arm. Munich has turned up the wick on the M Performance SUV’s 3.0-litre straight-six, lifting output by 33kW to a round 326kW, or 443hp in old money. Alongside the extra grunt comes a new Black Package, …

The BMW X3 M50 xDrive has quietly become a much angrier machine. BMW’s autumn 2026 update round hands it 443 hp, a jump of 45 hp over the version it replaces, with production starting in December. It is the headline mechanical change in a busy set of revisions that touches …

Configurators are live for both the 2027 BMW X5 and the 2027 Audi Q7, which means the spec sheets are finally out in the open. Neither has turned a wheel in anger for the press yet. Even so, the numbers tell a story, and it is a far closer one …